Rose Hobart (film)

Rose Hobart (film)

"Rose Hobart" (1936) is a short, 19-minute experimental film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Hollywood film "East of Borneo" into one of America's most famous surrealist short films. Cornell was fascinated by the star of "East of Borneo," an actress named Rose Hobart, and named his short film after her. The piece consists of snippets from "East of Borneo" combined with shots from a documentary of an eclipse.

Creation

By chance, Cornell bought the 1931 film "East of Borneo" produced by Universal Pictures. To make the 77-minute film less tedious from their repeated viewings, Cornell would occasionally cut some parts, rearrange others, or add pieces of nature films, until it was condensed to its final-length of 19 minutes, mostly featuring shots of the lead actress, whom Cornell had become obsessed with.

Screenings

When Cornell screened the film, he projected it through a piece of blue glass and slowed the speed of projection to that of a silent film. The original soundtrack is removed, and the film is accompanied instead by "Forte Allegre" and "Belem Bayonne", two songs from Nestor Amaral's "Holiday in Brazil," a record that Cornell had found at a junk shop.

The film was first shown in 1936 at Julian Levy's New York City gallery in a matinee program featuring short films from Cornell's collection. Levy called the program "Goofy Newsreels." This took place around the same time as the first surrealism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Salvador Dalí was in the audience, but halfway through the film, he knocked over the projector in a rage. “My idea for a film is exactly that, and I was going to propose it to someone who would pay to have it made,” he said. "I never wrote it down or told anyone, but it is as if he had stolen it." Other versions of Dalí's accusation tend to the more poetic: "He stole it from my subconscious!" or even "He stole my dreams!"

After the Dalí incident, Cornell did not show the film again until the 1960s, when, at the behest of Jonas Mekas, it was screened again for a public audience. When the first print was made from Cornell's original in 1969, Cornell chose a 'rose' tint instead of the normal blue.

Honors

In 2001, "Rose Hobart" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

External links

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References

*Deborah Solomon, "Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell" (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997)
*Julian Levy, "Memoir of an Art Gallery" (Boston: MFA Publications, 2003)
*Andy Ditzler, [http://andel.home.mindspring.com/cornell_notes.htm Program Notes] , 2005
*Brian Frye, [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/17/hobart.html Rose Hobart] , 2001


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